Corgan & Simpson Recording Together

Please, no jokes about him curing her melancolie infinite sadness yet. Save your pity for John Mayer.

By Perez Mills

Everybody recovered from the hangover that was the ‘00s? Make your New Year's resolutions yet? Good - this year/century's first, er, noteworthy musical news (aside from those skin disease-like tattoos Courtney Love recently got, of course) comes courtesy of Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson.

You knew it was coming. No, silly, not the rumors about them getting married (which, if you parse the terminology of this press release, hardly justified the headline "Jessica Simpson to Marry Billy Corgan"). Plus, we already told you some time ago that the pair was, at least for the moment, a dating item. We're talking the news that the Smashing Pumpkins frontman and the former Mrs. Nick Lachey have been working together in the recording studio.

MTV News reports:

Jessica and Billy are working in the studio together. And this isn't news from friends of sources, but instead from Jessica's Twitter, Our favorite tweet appeared just the other day, when she tweeted a photo of herself and Corgan in the studio working on music that has since been removed. She has apparently been in the studio with him and producer Kerry Brown.

Indeed, if you head over to Jessica Simpson's Twitter feed, it's loaded with references to being into the studio with Corgan and Brown (@studiodog): "I am blessed - going over a song w/billy and the boxer"; etc.), while Brown's Twitter similarly references the sessions in spots. And the pair's photographer friend Kristin Burns took the above photo that's been making the rounds of the web.

No details yet on whether they're working on material for Simpson herself, or if she's doing vocals for the forthcoming Pumpkins projects. Here's hoping, however, that she's up on her flu shots, since sharing spit at a microphone can transmit many a contagious disease.